Managing the Product Value Chain for Industrial ...（管理产品价值链为工业u2026）.pdfVIP

An Oracle White Paper June 2011 Managing the Product Value Chain for the Industrial Manufacturing Industry Contributing Authors: John DaDamio, Oracle PLM/PIM Applications Pre-Sales Kerrie Foy, Oracle PLM/PIM Applications Product Marketing Ken Pulverman, Oracle PLM/PIM Applications Product Marketing Oracle White Paper: Managing the Product Value Chain for the Industrial Manufacturing Industry Executive Overview Industrial product manufacturers are leveraging Oracle’s Product Value Chain solutions to effectively plan and execute complex product programs, rapidly identify and solve critical quality issues, significantly improve operating cost structures, deliver products that satisfy unique customer requirements, confidently manage outsourced manufacturing in networked business models, and position themselves as providers of complete product and service solutions to their customers. Introduction The industrial product manufacturing industry is in constant flux, driven by relentless financial pressure, demand cyclicality, and increasing customer need for ever more complex products. Success has become even more difficult to achieve, given a lack of adequate insight into returns on investment. It’s time to examine the Product Value Chain – the entirety of all the processes, both inside and outside the company, that touch your products and product data from design, to supply chain, to production, to sales. Only Oracle can unlock the value of your Product Value Chain by leveraging the combined strength of our best-in-breed Product Lifecycle Mangement (PLM), Product Data Hub (PDH), and Product Data Quality (PDQ) solutions to systematically manage the on-time and on target release, quality and profitability of your products across your entire extended enterprise, or Product Network. Industry Challenges Industrial product manufacturers face severe financial pressure, cyclical demand, and customers with u